Great presentation! It’s awesome that you continued to pursue your compound despite setbacks with your negative control by doing more experiments with the agar diffusion test. Do you know if your compound has been used in medications against leprosy?
Thanks so much, I really appreciate it! To answer your question – kind of. It was used in the Middle Ages and was commonly swallowed as an oil to treat leprosy. Nowadays, it has been tested as an acid in mice with leprosy, but not a formal medication.
Awesome presentation! One question I have is, since I don’t know much about this class, can you clarify what exactly is the relationship between nutrients and antibiotics?
Thank you! To answer your question, nutrients and antimicrobial properties are essentially opposites. So for example, nutrients can help the growth of bacteria, whereas antibiotics kill bacteria. So when these are both included in the compound, they tend to cancel each other out.
Thanks so much for your question and feedback! To answer your question, nutrients would greatly inhibit the success rate of bacteria death. Nutrients help bacteria thrive, so the antibiotic properties would not be able to effectively do their job when nutrients are present. They cancel each other out, essentially.
Thanks for your question! The conclusive results from our research are that, as a whole compound, Chaulmoogra does not work as an antibiotic. But as mentioned, we believe that if we separate each individual compound within the oil, we may be able to find a singular entity that would work as an antibiotic isolated from the other compounds within. Hope this makes sense!
Great presentation! It’s awesome that you continued to pursue your compound despite setbacks with your negative control by doing more experiments with the agar diffusion test. Do you know if your compound has been used in medications against leprosy?
Thanks so much, I really appreciate it! To answer your question – kind of. It was used in the Middle Ages and was commonly swallowed as an oil to treat leprosy. Nowadays, it has been tested as an acid in mice with leprosy, but not a formal medication.
Awesome presentation! One question I have is, since I don’t know much about this class, can you clarify what exactly is the relationship between nutrients and antibiotics?
Thank you! To answer your question, nutrients and antimicrobial properties are essentially opposites. So for example, nutrients can help the growth of bacteria, whereas antibiotics kill bacteria. So when these are both included in the compound, they tend to cancel each other out.
What effects would nutrients have on pathogens?
Thanks for your question! They would likely help the pathogens grow even further, almost like a plant fertilizer.
How exactly do nutrients affect the success rate of the killing of the bacteria? Great presentation by the way, it flowed very well. Good job!
Thanks so much for your question and feedback! To answer your question, nutrients would greatly inhibit the success rate of bacteria death. Nutrients help bacteria thrive, so the antibiotic properties would not be able to effectively do their job when nutrients are present. They cancel each other out, essentially.
How exactly do nutrients affect the success rate of killing the bacteria? Great presentation by the way, it flowed really well. Good job!
What were the conclusive results that came from this project? I had a hard time following
Thanks for your question! The conclusive results from our research are that, as a whole compound, Chaulmoogra does not work as an antibiotic. But as mentioned, we believe that if we separate each individual compound within the oil, we may be able to find a singular entity that would work as an antibiotic isolated from the other compounds within. Hope this makes sense!